Friday, January 7th 2011
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ASUS Shows Off Humongous Radeon HD 6970 DirectCu II Graphics Card
ASUS displayed a huge new graphics card based on the AMD Radeon HD 6970 GPU. The EAH6970 DirectCu is perhaps the largest among the company's graphics cards that use a "direct-copper" GPU cooler in which heat pipes make direct contact with the GPU die. Such is the size of the cooler, that the card requires three expansion slots in your system. To make optimal use of the expansion brackets, ASUS wired out all TMDS links from the GPU, yielding a display connectivity consisting of two DVI and four full-sized DisplayPort 1.2 connectors.
The GPU cooler makes use of a large aluminum fin array which uses at least three 8 mm thick copper heat pipes. The aluminum fins are cooled by the airflow of two 120 mm fans. The card uses 2 GB of high-speed GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface, it packs 1536 VLIW4 stream processors. The card also seems to be using a 9-phase VRM that allows software voltage control. Power is drawn in from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors.
The GPU cooler makes use of a large aluminum fin array which uses at least three 8 mm thick copper heat pipes. The aluminum fins are cooled by the airflow of two 120 mm fans. The card uses 2 GB of high-speed GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface, it packs 1536 VLIW4 stream processors. The card also seems to be using a 9-phase VRM that allows software voltage control. Power is drawn in from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors.
20 Comments on ASUS Shows Off Humongous Radeon HD 6970 DirectCu II Graphics Card
I'm quite sure those are HDMI ports, HDMI ports on Dell's have the same shape. I'm wondering why they don't use the universal shape...
EDIT: Err, those ports on Dell's are Display Ports too. I thought they are supposed to be smaller...
EDIT: shiny red cobra beat me to it. :(
I find the label vaguely humorous Direct"CU" would mean something different in the language where i live.
Same with the new Power Cooler PSCh 6970 they have the revised pcb to me look at the back of the cards..
On the new power circuitry, looks "nVidia" like it its layout.
Also looks like the BIOS Switch is gone off ver2 pcb.
PS Booth babes are up too.:nutkick: